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Title: A BRAND NEW WEKK
Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 12:01:32 AM: Well, you've read the notes, therefore all is well with the world, notes-wise, and now we simply must have loads of lovely postings, mustn't we? ::)
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Post by: Tomovoz on March 15, 2004, 12:35:26 AM: Most of Anthony Newley albums have not made it to CD as yet. I think there a few Bobby Darin albums yet to make it to Cd also. I may check later for more specific answers to the topic of the day.
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 15, 2004, 01:11:33 AM: Interesting question, BK, and I hope everyone wekks eloquently in response.

For myself, there was a record released by Columbia, late in their association with Walter Carlos, of Switched On Bach fame. Titled By Request, it was a rather schizoid record, ranging from electronic realizations of music by Tchaikovsky to early electronic music, and from Bach to Bacharach's "What's New, Pussycat." The centerpiece of the album was a theme and variations rendition of Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March", the one most of us associate with graduation ceremonies, where the variations ranged from takes on Mussorgsky, Joplin, and Rossini to the Beer Barrel Polka. Seriously! (and not.)

I was about to post wishing this were on CD, when I decided to check before proving myself a fool, and I'm glad that I did. It seems that Wendy Carlos (who went through a name change sometime between this album and her subsequent work with Kubrick on The Shining) has indeed totally restored her work and released it on disc! Huzzah! is what I say!

For more information, I suggest checking out the attached link! (http://www.wendycarlos.com/+br.html) (Everyone should be able to find out more about Wendy Carlos' works through her own links at the bottom of her page.)
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Post by: Jed on March 15, 2004, 01:54:06 AM: It's not even 5am for you yet, elmore, what the heck are you doing up already??? Early birds will never make sense to me. :D
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Post by: Jed on March 15, 2004, 01:57:49 AM: I think most everything that was in the LP collection we had when I was growing up is available on CD now. I listened most often to the Annie and A Chorus Line OCR's, along with Manhattan Transfer's Mecca for Moderns and the American Graffiti soundtrack, all of which are easily acquirable CDs. I have the first two CDs now, but still need to get the Mecca for Moderns disc... been meaning to for ages, just haven't yet.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 02:05:42 AM: Good morning, all! It's quite early. I woke up around 3:55 am with my system teling me I had to get up and grind out bass parts for these acts I'm finishing up. I've got bass and drum to get through today so I can begin the Keyboard 2 material. I lost around 3 hours of work last night to have dinner with a good friend from my hometown and his wife; they were in to see WICKED and didn't like it much. I'm seeing it next month and looking forward to it. I hope I enjoy it. I loved the novel.

I have to go to Baltimore on Thursday morning to look at Eubie Blake material, so I have to have these shows ready to hand in by Wednesday night. My nerves are telling me to work, work, work, and I'm averaging 5 hours sleep a night right now. I'll sleep late this weekend.

Dear BK asked about albums not yet transferred to disc, and so many recordings I thought would never get transferred have appeared - Judy Henske, JUNO, KEAN, EARNEST IN LOVE - that my list gets shorter. Here are a few of my wish list:

1. MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF (original Off-Broadway cast)
2. complete Mary Martin & Pearl Bailey HELLO DOLLY
3. KING OF HEARTS soundtrack, music by Georges Delerue (?)
4. Elly Stone's solo album for Columbia with "Song for Old Lovers" and "My Childhood"
5. JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL soundtrack
6. WORDS AND MUSIC soundtrack; why Rhino didn't do this for the Rodgers centenary is beyond me
7. Tessie O'Shea and Carol Channing solo albums for Command
8. Music of Bernstein with Alfred Drake and Roberta Peters on Command
9. The complete Frederic Austin version of BEGGAR'S OPERA on Argo Records
10. Eva le Galliene's version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND with music by Richard Addinsell
11. London cast CAMELOT with Laurence Harvey
12. NEW FACES OF '56 with Maggie Smith and "April in Fairbanks"
13. NEW FACES of '68 with Madeline Kahn singing the best Brecht-Weill parody ever, "Das Chicago Song"
14. TUSCALOOSA'S CALLING ME BUT I"M NOT GOING original cast
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 02:10:55 AM: Quote from: Jed on March 15, 2004, 01:54:06 AM
It's not even 5am for you yet, elmore, what the heck are you doing up already??? Early birds will never make sense to me. :D

DR Jed, I get more work done at home in the morning between 7 and noon than the rest of the day, what with phone, errands, etc. It's quiet, I have no other procrastination techniques but the computer since I have to keep it down for the neighbors' sakes, and 5 am is early, even for me. I usually get up around 7 and sleeping late is getting up after 8:30. What are you doing up at 2 am? Don't you have to go to work on Monday morning?
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 02:16:14 AM: I also wish that all of the William Bolcom-Joan Morris recordings were on CD, especially the Nonesuch recordings of "Ladies of Vaudeville," which was cut up to fill out the "After the Ball" CD and their Lieber-Stoller compilation, the RCA-BMG recording of "These Charming People" and their cabaret evening which included "Lime Jellow Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise."

Speaking of Lieber and Stoller, did Peggy Lee's compilation - I believe it was called "Mirrors" - ever get released on CD?
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Post by: Tomovoz on March 15, 2004, 02:17:40 AM: I didn't expect to see anyone here at all guys. Just had a look through my old albums - I think many are really available these days - I just have not bothered or had the spare $.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 02:27:27 AM: How could I have forgotten these:

Charlotte Rae's solo album, "Songs I Taught My Mother"
Caedmon's recording of Mother Goose rhymes with Cyril Ritchard, Boris Karloff, and Celeste Holm and fantastic arrangements by Hershey Kay for 3-5 musicians including harp, percussion, and reed
The complete plays:
1. MARAT/SADE (Royal Shakespeare Company which includes a sequence cut from the film version)
2. TARTUFFE (Stratford Festival)
3. THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL with Sir Ralph Richardson
4. LOVE FOR LOVE (National Theatre of Great Britain)
There was a great jazz album with Maureen Forrester on Vanguard (?) called "Mozart After Hours" or something like that
THE BAROQUE BEATLES BOOK from Nonesuch
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 02:29:49 AM: Quote from: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 02:27:27 AM

THE BAROQUE BEATLES BOOK from Nonesuch

Maybe it wasn't on Nonesuch, but it had great arrangements by Joshua Rifkin who orchestrated "Both sides Now" for Judy Collins
Title: Re:A BRAND NEW WEKK
Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 04:41:22 AM: We are predicted to have 3-6" of snow tonight. That is some way to start the wekk! >:(

DR td - if Mae in "Breckinridge" stunned you - then you must watch "Sextette". I think we may have talked about it before. It is a frightening experience. Here is my review of the film:

http://www.epinions.com/content_62865510020

I just reviewed Guy Haines solo CD at Amazon.com and it should be up in the next few days. ;D

A few LP's that I would love to have on CD include a solo album by Anita Darian and singer Jane Morgan's LP's. Terrific singers both!
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 05:35:57 AM: Quote from: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 02:05:42 AM
13. NEW FACES of '68 with Madeline Kahn singing the best Brecht-Weill parody ever, "Das Chicago Song"

I adore "Das Chicago Song," which I played too many times on my NF of 68 LP.

Would it be feasible for anyone to consider producing a Madeline Kahn Favorites CD?

I also agree with JRand53 that Madeline Kahn's What's Up Doc scene (being dragged out of the reception hall) remains one of the funniest. Since I first saw the movie, I have never been able to take a "Eunice" seriously.

From memory - may not be exact:

"This woman claims to be a Eunice Burns."
"I am not a Euncie Burns. I am the Eunice Burns."

Cracks me up just thinking about it.

I miss you, Madeline.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 05:39:32 AM: DR DinTO - So many funny moments for her in that movie:

"I'M COMING IN!"

"What are you doing with Howard Bannisters rocks?"

Eunice: "This man tried to molest me."
Judge: "That's...unbelievable."
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Post by: Ben on March 15, 2004, 05:43:20 AM: We are having major computer problems at home so I have been e&t all weekend. In fact, Mr. Morelli is probably talking to the outsourced help desk at Gateway right now. At least we were able to get most, if not all the important stuff off the computer in case we need to have major work done. This week I will probably be able to see HHW only at work between the hours of 6:45am and 4pm. No evening access for me.

Mr. Elmore, glad to know there is another Joan Morris & William Bolcolm fan out there. We have lots of their stuff but it would be nice to have everything (isn't that true for all sorts of things). I have looked for years for JMs Civil War songs album (I don't think Bolcolm was involved in that one) but without success. Every time we go into a used record store it's one of the first things we look for, along with the cabaret evening, which, thanks to the efforts of DR Kerry, we have on tape.

We will be transferring a record to CD this week, thanks to the generosity of a friend who is letting us use his burner hooked up to his turntable. We will finally have the Minneapolis Out and About Theatre Production of Boy Meets Boy (from 1979) on CD. I've mentioned this albmum before. It's got full orchestrations and more music than the CD transfer of the original production. We are very happy to finally get this on CD. When done, we will send a copy to our friend who directed the production back in Minneapolis (he now lives in Tucson, AZ). He only has the record as well.

There are so many other LPs I would like to have on CD. At least all the Peter Paul and Mary albums are on CD, except for Reunion, a 1978 not great attempt to begin recording again after a time apart and one of their early albums, a concert in Japan, from the 1960s. I do wish that ALL the Chad Mitchell Trio and Mitchell Trio stuff was on CD. Many of the albums are (thanks to Collectors Choice Music and Rediscover Music) but there are still gaps in the collection. At least I have all the vinyl so at some point I will be able to make copies.

And now, back to work.

TTFN
Title: Re:A BRAND NEW WEKK
Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 15, 2004, 05:47:19 AM: As they sing in "I, Jupiter" in Out of This World:
"Wekk, wekk, a-wekka, sex!
Wekk, wekk, a-wekka, sex!"

Most desired recording on CD:
The '73 revival of Candide.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 05:50:14 AM: Oh and yes, DRTomovOz - "Myra Breckinridge" director Michael Sarne was quite the vocalist! Thanks for sharing!
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 05:50:53 AM: BK - What a great interview with "you've been a composer, you've been a conductor, you've been an arranger, you've worked on hit and flop Broadway shows, you've worked with legendary stars" Larry Blank.

It's exhaustive, revealing, and fascinating - must reading for anyone interested in musical theatre. (What am I all of a sudden?)
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 06:12:57 AM: Quote from: Ben on March 15, 2004, 05:43:20 AM

I do wish that ALL the Chad Mitchell Trio and Mitchell Trio stuff was on CD. Many of the albums are (thanks to Collectors Choice Music and Rediscover Music) but there are still gaps in the collection. At least I have all the vinyl so at some point I will be able to make copies.

DR Ben, all the Chad Mitchell Trio recordings are finally on CD, to my knowledge. I'm one of their biggest fans and I feel I owe them a great debt: whatever political leanings I have are a direct result of their recordings, along with several others in the 60s folk movement, and the friends who introduced me to their recordings, namely Mike Hermetz and Steve Brown. A couple of years ago, the Chad Mitchell Trio had a reunion in NYC at Symphony Space and I went to see them. I think their third song was the "Greenland Whalers," during which I started weeping and continued to do so through the rest of the concert. I went backstage to meet them afterwards. They were wonderful.
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 06:13:20 AM: Buffalonians would have no problem with a "brand new wekk."

"Some people consider Beef on Weck - thinly sliced rare roast beef (piled high as 6 inches) on a freshly baked kummelweck roll - the best roast beef sandwich in America. This sandwich is a staple of Buffalo, New York. Few, if any, restaurants outside the Buffalo area serve this sandwich or even know what it is.

It is a roast beef sandwich on a salty kummelweck roll. In fact, it is this roll that makes the sandwich unique. Made only in the Buffalo-Rochester area, the kummelweck, often alternatively spelled kimmelweck, is basically a Kaiser roll topped with lots of pretzel salt and caraway seeds. Kummelweck is simply shortened to 'weck.'"
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 06:15:58 AM: Sparkling interview with Mr Larry Blank. Whew! He has done a LOT!
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Post by: William E. Lurie on March 15, 2004, 06:31:17 AM: Greetings on The Ides of March.

With one or two exceptions, Elmore's list could have been my list. I was mentaly compiling it as I read the other posts and when I got to his list I found just about everything I would have listed. The only thing missing would be several of the Al Carmines shows. Only "Promenade" has been issued on CD ("W. C." was recorded and issued in the CD era). How about "Peace", "Joan", "In Circles" and some of the rest?

Since my taste is often quite different from others, I have to admit I don't know what everyone sees in "The Sopranos". I saw the first episode the first season and wondered what all the raves were for. Only the late Nancy Marchand held my interest. Other than the some early WB movies ("Public Enemy", "Little Ceasar", et. al.) and the first 2 "Godfather" films, I have never cared for films with mobsters as the main characters. I hated "Bonnie and Clyde".

I am beginning to think Charles Busch can only play one character. His Gillian in "Bell, Book and Candle" was no different from his Auntie Mame or roles he wrote for himself. In the case of BB&C it was totally wrong, but his fans loved it and applauded each new gown he wore. It's a shame too, because the rest of the cast (Dody Goodman, Howard McGilin, Malcolm Gets and Jonathan Freeman plus naration by Peter Bartlett) was quite good. The play is dated but fun. It's interesting that even though this was a free reading to Drama Department subscribers, there were many empty seats.
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Post by: Ben on March 15, 2004, 06:44:43 AM: DR Larry, I'll have to look more extensively. I've never seen any reference to one of the early albums which was a concert with The Gatemen. It's on the old Colpix label (vinyl that is) and one of the late albums after John Denver joined the group and they toured as the Mitchell Trio. It's called Alive and the trio is Mike Kobluk, John Denver and David Boise.

As you said in your post "whatever political leanings I have are a direct result of their recordings, along with several others in the 60s folk movement" The music is still relevant and important today . I'm glad to know there are other fans.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 07:11:17 AM: Quote from: Ben on March 15, 2004, 06:44:43 AM
It's called Alive and the trio is Mike Kobluk, John Denver and David Boise.

DR Ben, this is quite puzzling! The only Colpix I know of is their very first album before Joe Frazier ewplaced Mike Pugh. Denver replaced Chad Mitchell and David Boise must have replaced Joe Frazier, so this would be a later album I don't know of! I thought their only joint appearance was on the Belafonte Carnegie Hall concert with Odetta and Miriam Makeba.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 07:20:08 AM: Well, you see, when you get out of bed at 4:55 am after 4 hours sleep, you don't always think clearly and I can even spell "replaced."

So there are two albums here: early Colpix with The Gatemen, which I don't know of, and a much later one "alive," after the trio really had dissolved to one original member. Collector's Choice released the two albums with John Denver replacing Chad Mitchell, and I see in the notes to this CD that this last album was on Reprise.
Things you learn!

Yes, I'd like to see "In Circles" on CD as well. There's a lot of wonderful music in it, and I forgot to mention Christopher Plummer's CYRANO, with Leigh Beery and her wonderful "You Have Made Me Love You." I'd like to see the Lincoln Center 1976 THREEPENNY OPERA on disc as well. One project I used to push to BK was a complete unexpurgated Marc Blitzstein THREEPENNY recording, using his artistes like Judy Kaye as Mrs Peachum, Rebecca Luker or Emily Loesser as Polly, Leee Wilkoff as Peachum, etc. So I'm pushing it again!
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Post by: Ben on March 15, 2004, 07:23:42 AM: Larry, I was not completely clear in my reply. The 1964 Gatemen/CMT concert album is on Colpix (LP Colpix SCP463) and the Alive album is from the late 60s and it's on Reprise (LP Reprise RS6258). I have both of these albums on vinyl and in the next post I will put the cover art if it looks OK, so you can see what they look like.. If you're interested, since we're both in New York, (even if we weren't I could still do for a fan) I can tape both albums and get them to you.
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Post by: Ben on March 15, 2004, 07:26:52 AM: Here is a small photo of the cover art for the Alive album from the late 60s.
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Post by: Ben on March 15, 2004, 07:28:21 AM: Here is the cover for the Gatemen/CMT concert from 1964
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Post by: Ben on March 15, 2004, 07:30:03 AM: Ah, yes, the Christopher Plummer Cyrano. I have that on vinyl. I remember seeing it at the Guthrie Theatre where it began. I know that by the time it got to NYC it was a completely different show, but I still love the album and the show that I saw in Minneapolis.
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Post by: Ben on March 15, 2004, 07:31:38 AM: Also, just finished listening to another wonderful radio show w/Donald. Where do you find these gems? H/Ks, go listen to obscure songs by a Chicago cabaret artist and have fun this Monday morning. It's well worth the listen
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 07:32:12 AM: DR Ben, well knock me over! I feel like Lorelei Lee when she first saw that diamond tiara ("I love finding new places to wear diamonds") when I look at those two covers. I thought I knew everything about Chad Mitchell Trio releases! I would love tapes, and now we have to get them on CD to complete our collections, dammit!
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 07:36:55 AM: Since JoseS is about, this is for you, dear:

(http://www.magicoflearning.com/art/hungary/photo/cukr.JPG)

This is a picture from a Cukraszda
Cukraszda means Cafe where many kinds of pastry are sold as well as ice cream, coffee, and tea. The pastries are AWESOME, and I haven't had better ice cream than in Hungary. You need to find those ecpecially great places for the ice cream, but I garantee that you will keep going back there.

der Brucer (who is preparing a pedant-attack on Panni and came across this great pic while doing research)
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Post by: Kerry on March 15, 2004, 07:39:19 AM: I'm tired; it's early; I didn't get enough sleep. I want to go back to bed. But i thought i'd say, "Hi" and cheer you all up. So now you all feel better, meanwhile I want to go back to bed. Could you all go to work for me and pretend you're me?
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Post by: Matt H. on March 15, 2004, 07:42:52 AM: Three LPs come to mind instantly, but I'm sure there are scads more once I put my mind to it.

1. TWO'S COMPANY with Bette Davis

2. BRIGADOON studio cast with Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy

3. STARS OF THE SILVER SCREEN 1929-1930. This was an RCA compilation LP of studio recordings by movie stars who were breaking into sound films, so there are people like Gloria Swanson, Lupe Valez, Everett Marshall, Bebe Daniels who sang in early talkies. They aren't soundtrack recordings (which were often interrupted by dialogue), so they're complete renditions of songs, and they're still wonderful.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 07:49:56 AM: DRMATTH - I think Two's Company has made a recent appearance on CD! I am sure someone else can confirm or deny such.

The Chad Mitchell Trio....they made me laugh AND think, sometimes both at the same time.

Hang on the bell, Lizzie, hang on the bell!
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 07:56:23 AM: Quote from: JRand53 on March 15, 2004, 07:49:56 AM
Hang on the bell, Lizzie, hang on the bell!

Don't let them take the green silk with the tear; that, my dear, is for you.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 15, 2004, 07:56:43 AM: Well, I know Davis' solo album MISS BETTE DAVIS was recently released on CD, but I haven't seen any release information on TWO'S COMPANY unless it was pressed in England and imported over here.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 08:03:59 AM: You're right DRMATTH - I just looked at the cover at Amazon and that is the one I am thinking of.

So - Two's Company is still among the CD missing.
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 08:06:34 AM: Quote from: Ben on March 15, 2004, 07:30:03 AM
Ah, yes, the Christopher Plummer Cyrano. I have that on vinyl. I remember seeing it at the Guthrie Theatre where it began. I know that by the time it got to NYC it was a completely different show, but I still love the album and the show that I saw in Minneapolis.

I saw it in Toronto (closer to the Minneapolis version) and loved it. Also have it on vinyl and wish it would be released as a CD. The composer Michael J. Lewis wrote the music for the Katharine Hepburn/Yul Brynner Madwoman of Chaillot. Lewis also did the music for Vincent Price's over the top "Theatre of Blood," which, unlike MWOC, I'd really like to see again.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 15, 2004, 08:19:35 AM: Quote from: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 07:20:08 AM
I'd like to see the Lincoln Center 1976 THREEPENNY OPERA on disc as well.

I forgot about this one, too. The one unfortunate thing about a CD release for this recording would be another case of marvelous cover art being reduced to a size where it's not as appreciatable.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 15, 2004, 08:24:55 AM: Quote from: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 08:06:34 AM
I saw it in Toronto (closer to the Minneapolis version) and loved it. Also have it on vinyl and wish it would be released as a CD. The composer Michael J. Lewis wrote the music for the Katharine Hepburn/Yul Brynner Madwoman of Chaillot. Lewis also did the music for Vincent Price's over the top "Theatre of Blood," which, unlike MWOC, I'd really like to see again.

Speaking of Vincent Price, are there any Dr. Phibes fans here?
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 08:26:17 AM: Dr Phibes! ;D

Oh, Lenore!
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 08:27:14 AM: http://eurekatreasures.com/rare2.htm

(it doesn't seem to work with www - use the http//)

This site lists OCRs that have not been released on CD. It may not be up to the minute, but it reminded me that I'd like to see the following:

Mexican Hay Ride
Hazel Flagg
Spoon River Anthology
Secret Life of Walter Mitty
A Time for Singing
The Mad Show

(as well as the already mentioned Cyrano, In Circles, and New Faces of 1956 & 1968)

I can very happily do without Let It Ride.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 15, 2004, 08:45:42 AM: Quote from: Dan (the Man) on March 15, 2004, 05:47:19 AM
As they sing in "I, Jupiter" in Out of This World:
"Wekk, wekk, a-wekka, sex!
Wekk, wekk, a-wekka, sex!"

Most desired recording on CD:
The '73 revival of Candide.

AMEN, Brudda!
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Post by: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 08:54:14 AM: Quote from: Dan (the Man) on March 15, 2004, 08:24:55 AM
Speaking of Vincent Price, are there any Dr. Phibes fans here?

I think he's really abominable.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 08:54:49 AM: LOL WFO...but boy can he handle an organ!
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 08:59:29 AM: *****WARNING*****

PEDANT ATTACK AHEAD

Those repulsed by the violence in "The Passion" or who would be repulsed watching a 65 year-old Born in the USA grandfather attack a charming not-yet-chronologically-challenged immigrant Hungarian screenwriter should read no further!

[Sets and Costumes from Prisoner of Zenda; staging ala "The Rape" from "The Fantastics"; weapons, brochettes (a "Camelot" reference); music - the Hungarian composer of your choice (Ferencz Liszt , Bela ~~Lagosi~~ Bartok, or, my choice, Zoltan Kodaly (the Great Hungarian Composers (http://www.zoltech.net/h/composers.html) website says: "He is also the author of books on pedagogic and historical subjects. - My kind of guy!)

Here is the exterior establishing shot for the duel:

(http://www.magicoflearning.com/art/hungary/photo/vajd.jpg)

Background:

Yesterday Dan of the North made reference to chicken Paprikash. Our soon to be vanquished heroine, Panni, bewailed:

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I can no longer stand by in silence and watch or I shall explode! Explode, I tell you. -- It's Chicken PAPRIKAS (no H). In Hungarian, "s" is pronounced "sh"...

"S" as in the word "sit" is written "SZ"...

That feels so much better.

Our resident gentleman (TCB) rose to the defense:

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My apologies, DR Panni, but a Google search turned up 279 entries for Chicken Paprikash -- and that doesn't include my friend Lorna's recipe, which is spelled the same way. They must have all been from the wrong side of Budapest.

The Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth:

In Hungarian (http://food.epicurious.com/run/fooddictionary/browse?entry_id=9448) the dish is:

paprikás csirke
[PAH-pree-kash CHEER-kah]
Also called chicken paprikash

Noted Hungarian Restaurants, like Pearl of Budapest (http://www.menusite.com/pearlofbudapest/index.html) are a bit schizoid in their verbiage; their menu offers:

CHICKEN PAPRIKAS:
made with sour cream and served over homemade spaetzle $14.00

PÖRKÖLT: DELICIOUS PORK PAPRIKASH
made without sour cream and served over spaetzle $15.00

(I'm sure Panni will view with delight the omission of sour cream!)

The delightful Jo Reggelt Kivanok on her website (http://www.magicoflearning.com/pages/cooking.htm) offers a recipe for:

Chicken Paprikash over Egg Noodles ( Paprikas csirke tesztaval)

And, now, the dénouement:

If you're of the Hungarian persuasion it is:

paprikás csirke! (Please note the use of the diacritical mark! -[My personality makes me inordinately fond of diacritical marks!])

If you are of the English Language persuasion (with allowance made for both Americans and Canadians) it is:

chicken paprikash

But no way, never, no how is it:

Chicken Paprikas!

der "Eternally Vigilant Guardian of Mother Tongue" Brucer

PS Photo is of The Vajdahunyad Castle (taken from Ms Kivanok's site referenced above).

"This is a very unusual building designed by Ignac Alpar. It was originally planned as a temporary structure for the Millenary Exhibition which opened in the City Park in 1896. It was built to present in one building the different architectural styles which could be found in Hungary. Styles represented include Gothic, Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque. The structure was rebuilt in a permanent form in 1907. "
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Post by: Matt H. on March 15, 2004, 09:00:27 AM: Another RCA LP release in their Vintage Collection were studio recordings of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy from their films made at the time of their films' releases. (They many years later went into the studio and rerecorded their old hits in stereo, but I'm not interested in that.) I was reminded of it because ROSE MARIE aired on TCM last night, and I recorded it on the DVR to make a DVD-R from it later today.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 09:01:06 AM: I will just have a McChicken sandwish thank you.
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Post by: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 09:02:04 AM: DR Jenny: When I read those lyrics from Cops: The Musical last night, I was about to say, "Please! Remember, there are young people here!" Then I looked at the poster's name and realized that you is¹ a young people.

Never mind

Donald has another excellent radio show up. Now how would I have ever discovered "You're Awful" without Donald? It sounds like a long lost Cole Porter thing, dashed off extempor at a party, natch.
¹ Added just for BK's benefit, because he hates grammar. We should all attempt to do violence to grammar (But not to Gramma!) occasionally, just to please him.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 09:03:46 AM: I would add Cry for Us All, and agree with The Mad Show and A Time for Singing (I tried to do both Cry and A Time for Singing, for VS and the other joint, but could never work it out). And a big yes to the Baroque Beatles Book, a great album. Thankfully, with the exception of the Bill Evans movie album, almost every commercially released Evans album has found its way to CD. But not Brubeck - a key want for me is still his ballet Points on Jazz as played by Gold and Fizdale. The music, at least, is now available on CD in a new recording - it's fine, but Gold and Fizdale were unique and brilliant. Of course, there are many many Warner Bros. albums we need, especially the soundtracks to Dead Ringer and Inside Daisy Clover, but I'd also like Sex and the Single Girl and Any Wednesday, too.
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 09:04:21 AM: A duel, Der Brucer? Oh, sit. I never intended it to go this far.
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Post by: Jay on March 15, 2004, 09:06:43 AM: Was that "sit" or "szit?"
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 15, 2004, 09:07:54 AM: Good Morning!

I was such the Wussburger last night! After watching "The Sopranos" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm", I found myself waking up just in time to catch the weather on the news... Then I dragged myself off my couch, plopped into bed... The next thing I knew it was 9:30 this morning! I guess the weekend had finally caught up with me. So... Time to catch up, I guess...

-As for a particularly errant and truant and truant and errant Dear Reader who still works at MTI - although not at MIT ;) - and at the Metropolitan Opera, and continues to audition, and is actually assisting with some other projects right now... In other words, Jason is doing fine. He's just Busy... With a capital "B" - like I just typed.

-My favorite scene from What's Up Doc?... Ryan O'Neal in white boxers. :P

-DR WFO - Thank you for sharing. Again. And it's soooo nice to know that your Joe will be home soon. Very soon.

-DR DERBRUCER - Thank you for the pic of the Hungarian dessert repast. Hmm... I haven't had lunch yet...
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 09:08:05 AM: Those of you who wish to console Panni could offer some of her favorite:

(http://members.aol.com/HungaryHu/Hungary/wines4.gif)

"BULL’S BLOOD" OF EGER - "EGRI BIKAVÉR"
One of the most famous wines from Hungary. Bull’s blood is a very unique dark red wine. Best served at room temperature with red meats, game, casseroles or cheese.

Or you could send her a gift certificate to Otto's (http://members.aol.com/HungaryHu/index.htm):

European and Hungarian Import Store & Deli
2320 West Clark Avenue • Burbank, California, 91506 U.S.A.

der Brucer - wishing Panni "Jó Étvágyát!"
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 09:12:20 AM: Just got an e-mail from someone in the mid-west who got their book today, so we know they're arriving.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 09:16:42 AM: Okay, DRs, has any body ever heard of ""Kinder Tojás™"?

Sounds like what Jewish parents spank!

Otto's (http://members.aol.com/HungaryHu/index.htm) offers:
(http://members.aol.com/Hungimprts/kinder.gif)

KINDER SURPRISE
CHOCOLATE EGGS
"Kinder Tojás™"
A famous milk chocolate for kids and adults. Kinder Eggs are holo egg shaped chocolates wrapped in foil and have unique center egg pod which contains a very unassembled secret toy. (Do not give toy to kinds under 4 years old.)

A favorite among kids collectors, and adults, Ferrero Kinder Eggs and mini-toys are collected by thousands of people throughout the world.

der Brucer (what ever happened to a Hard Candy Christmas?)
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Post by: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 09:17:14 AM: Quote from: JRand53 on March 15, 2004, 09:01:06 AM
I will just have a McChicken sandwish thank you.

Sorry, that's MkTschikken Szandzhouitsche.

And how do you spell Krushchev?
In German it's Chruschtschew, I believe.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 09:17:27 AM: Hurray!
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 09:27:41 AM: Is that a general hurray? Or perhaps a colonel hurray or an admiral hurray. Just what kind of hurray is that?
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 09:30:34 AM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2004, 09:27:41 AM
Just what kind of hurray is that?

Maybe its a Philly hurray, as in "Hurray up, it's my turn!"
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Post by: Panni on March 15, 2004, 09:41:41 AM: Der Brucer - Okay. I give up without a fight. Even though it's NOT correct to spell it Parikash. I don't care what anybody says. That's Hunglish. It's like Joe Eszterhas removing the final "Z" from his name to make life easier for the masses. I think that life should be hard for the masses. (And one of the people you quote writes that something is "very unique"... That disqualifies EVERYTHING right there.)
The only reason I give up without a fight is that you've got me drooling for pastries. That picture! Give it to me mit Schlage!
I'm going to note Otto's and take my daughter there when she comes to visit.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 15, 2004, 09:41:51 AM: Quote from: William F. Orr link=board=4;threadid=209;start=msg32873#msg32873 date=1079370124
[sup
1[/sup] Added just for BK's benefit, because he hates grammar. We should all attempt to do violence to grammar (But not to Gramma!) occasionally, just to please him.

Well, I'll do my part and continue on doing so.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 09:41:51 AM: If someone in the Midwest received his book today, HURRAY mine may be waiting for me when I get home AFTER tech rehearsal in 3-6 inches of snow! That kind of Hurray!
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 09:43:30 AM: Ah, THAT kind of hurray, the best kind. Let us know.
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Post by: Kerry on March 15, 2004, 09:44:09 AM: The Wells Fargo Wagon just showed up, and although I did not get my salmon frm Seattle OR my my raisins from Fresno, I DID get KRITZER TIME and accompanying CD. Mucho thanks. I'm late for work.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 09:45:55 AM: Quote from: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 09:02:04 AM
¹ Added just for BK's benefit, because he hates grammar. We should all attempt to do violence to grammar (But not to Gramma!) occasionally, just to please him.

No. A thousand times No! (That's 10³ Nos).
We should take him to he woodshed, yes, the woodshed, take him to the woodshed (that's three woodsheds) and chastise him for his eschewance of proper grammar!

We have trouble Drs'
Right here on HainesHisWay,
Trouble, with a capital "T" and it rhymes with "B", and that stands for Bad Grammar (not Kelsey who can't even spell it).

der Brucer (concerned that first it's bad grammar, then puns, then youngin's posting lyrics with dirty words)
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 09:54:56 AM: Quote from: Panni on March 15, 2004, 09:41:41 AM
Der Brucer - Okay. I give up without a fight.

Ok - let's do breakfast:
(http://www.magicoflearning.com/art/hungary/photo/brfast.JPG)

then we shop!

(http://www.magicoflearning.com/art/hungary/shopping/more%20pastry.jpg)
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Post by: Panni on March 15, 2004, 09:55:16 AM: I must get working - but I have to tell this one little story. I just love the mysterious ways of the mind. Rachel (daughter) called yesterday from Switzerland. She said that something "freaky" (her lingo) happened to her in Hungary a couple of days ago. She and her boyfriend went to visit our cousin. They were in the lobby of her building, but couldn't find her apartment number. A man walked out and they asked him in English to help. He replied in German. Rachel says that without thinking, she told him in German what apartment they were looking for and had a brief conversation with him. When he left her boyfriend said "I didn't know you spoke German!"
"Neither did I!" she replied.
Turns out she had no idea where it came from.
Well, when she was really young, I remember teaching her German numbers and phrases, just for fun. It probably ended when she was 5 or 6 and has never been mentioned since.
But there it was - locked somewhere in the back of her mind -- and suddenly released when it was needed.

Okay - I must work. I have a big pitch meeting tomorrow and need to prepare.
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Post by: Panni on March 15, 2004, 09:57:44 AM: DerBrucer - Yummy! I see Dobos Torta. Droooooolllll....
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Post by: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 09:59:03 AM: Quote from: Panni on March 15, 2004, 09:41:41 AM
(And one of the people you quote writes that something is "very unique"... That disqualifies EVERYTHING right there.)

Ah, thank you, DR Panni! I thought I was the only person in the world whose fritters were fried by that particular transgression. As opposed to what? A little bit unique? Slightly one of a kind?

But we should give thanks, oh yes we should, that the postings on this web site from young and old alike are incredibly correct, grammatically, stylewise, and even spelling. Compared to most of the "web sights" out there we are (unqualifiedly) unique.

But what really boils my tomatoes is what I hear on television (and, yes, read in the papers) from supposedly professional journalists--language is the major tool of their job. ....Insert rant here... Joe and I recently saw a special with a voice-over (didn't catch the name of the actor) entirely about the "catacooms". Was there no one about to tap him on the shoulder and correct him?

And then there is Anthony Newley and "malyenki davushka" [sic]. Every time I hear the record of Stop the World, I scream at Anna Quayle, "It's malyenkaya! Davushka is feminine!" Minor maybe, but with all the money poured into a London and Broadway production, nobody thought to ask someone who spoke Russian?

Golly, I'm feisty this morning. Better go teach computer class.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 10:07:32 AM: Quote from: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 06:13:20 AM
Few, if any, restaurants outside the Buffalo area serve this sandwich or even know what it is.

Shucks, just pop on over to The Native Newyorker (http://www.aznativenewyorker.com/default.htm) in Tempe, AZ and you can get:

(http://www.aznativenewyorker.com/images/menu/beef_on_kummelweck.jpg)

Beef on Kummelweck
You’re a true New Yorker if you order this! Roast beef piled high on our homemade Kummelweck roll. Baked with caraway seed and kosher salt on top.

der Brucer (what with Hungarian Breakfasts, ditto pastries and now this, Ize gettin' hung (not William) ry.
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Post by: Jay on March 15, 2004, 10:07:34 AM: It's the sign at the supermarket that reads "10 items or less" that gets my goat.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on March 15, 2004, 10:16:14 AM: Hoo and Ray! My book arrived!
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 10:23:59 AM: Quote from: Jay on March 15, 2004, 10:07:34 AM
It's the sign at the supermarket that reads "10 items or less" that gets my goat.

Also: The plane will be departing momentarily.

I don't know if it's a Canadian thing, but over the years I've heard too many people say:

drownded
boughten
and
(I kid you not)
Massatusetts
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 10:28:55 AM: JRand53 - Good luck with the show. (And please e-mail me your address.)
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 10:32:23 AM: On the other hand (and, yes, I know we didn't have "on the one hand"), last week we heard a CBC reporter interview an African-American writer. When the reporter asked about "W.E.B. Du-Bwah" I told Gord that she was about to be corrected. Immediately, the writer told the interviewer: "It's Doo-boys." Gord was in shock.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 15, 2004, 10:32:35 AM: Quote from: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 10:07:32 AM
Beef on Kummelweck

Or, as Dan-In-Toronto pointed out, Kimmelweck.

Kimmelweck.

Kimmel wekk.

Wow.

As we used to say in recovery, "There are no coincidences, only small actors."

Or something like that...
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 10:41:13 AM: Quote from: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 09:59:03 AM
... about the "catacooms".

and "malyenki davushka" [sic].

A. catacooms=Puff Daddy's kitty?

B. The Russian is worse than you thought. The vocal score for STW says "Meilinki"! Now I'm staring a the cyrillic text in my Russian Grammar book and it is clearly mal- yen-key-ee! (Not sure how to phonetically reproduce the final vowel sounds, its a backward N followed by a backward N with the doo-hickie on top.)

der Brucer (who actually survived 2 years of Russian language classes in college)
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 10:51:25 AM: Quote from: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 10:23:59 AM
I don't know if it's a Canadian thing, but over the years I've heard too many people say:

drownded
boughten
and
(I kid you not)
Massatusetts

Scarlet sends house boy to attic trunk to fetch some britches for her father.

On his return she inquires, “How many britches did you bring?”

His reply: “For Massatusetts.”

der Brucer (working overtime for that one!)
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Post by: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 10:54:59 AM: Not that I'm a Russian expert--far from it, I did dismally in one term of the language in college, DerB--but I believe the backwards N is like I in machIne and the one with the breve over it is the same sound, only shorter, like MALYENKIY. Then again, Russian is somewhat like English in that one tends to blurr most unaccented vowels, turning them into shwas.

There's a nice word: shwa. Awhs spelled backwards.

And speaking of Kirtzerish backwards words (backwords?), I've been meaning to mention that Spoo (Oops spelled backwards) is a favorite delicacy of the Centauris on Babylon 5. After many references to it on the show, the janitors (in the marvelous episode about the life of the janitors on a space station) finally tried some spoo and remarked, "Tastes like chicken."
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Post by: Ben on March 15, 2004, 10:56:25 AM: Jose, I must have been half-asleep when I positioned Jason in Cambridge, MA at MIT (Massatusetts Instatute of Teknologee), instead of in Midtown (New York, NY so nice they named it twice) at MTI (Moosic Theater (I've broken my own internal unbreakable rule and spelled it the other way) Internationale) ;)

Yes, the 1973 Candide belongs on CD

Yes, the mis-use of unique melts my buttons. Unique cannot be modified. Unique is Unique, unlike Monique (Van Vooren or any other Monique)
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2004, 10:58:46 AM: Quote from: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 09:59:03 AM
Ah, thank you, DR Panni! I thought I was the only person in the world whose fritters were fried by that particular transgression. As opposed to what? A little bit unique? Slightly one of a kind?

But we should give thanks, oh yes we should, that the postings on this web site from young and old alike are incredibly correct, grammatically, stylewise, and even spelling. Compared to most of the "web sights" out there we are (unqualifiedly) unique.

But what really boils my tomatoes is what I hear on television (and, yes, read in the papers) from supposedly professional journalists--language is the major tool of their job. ....Insert rant here... Joe and I recently saw a special with a voice-over (didn't catch the name of the actor) entirely about the "catacooms". Was there no one about to tap him on the shoulder and correct him?

And then there is Anthony Newley and "malyenki davushka" [sic]. Every time I hear the record of Stop the World, I scream at Anna Quayle, "It's malyenkaya! Davushka is feminine!" Minor maybe, but with all the money poured into a London and Broadway production, nobody thought to ask someone who spoke Russian?

Golly, I'm feisty this morning. Better go teach computer class.

Try having people come and visit you in Warshington.
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Post by: Charles Pogue on March 15, 2004, 11:03:08 AM: Michael J. Lewis, also composed a lovely score for my film, HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, 1983, starrng Ian Richardson. He actually issued his own two-CD album of music awhile back which contained selections of his film musci from 1969-1994, conducted and produced by him. On it are selections from my Hound of the Baskervilles, the Heston JULIUS CASAER, THE MEDUSA TOUCH, THEATRE OF BLOOD, MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT, SPHINX, and others...
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Post by: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 11:12:56 AM: Get ready for more than you want to know about Spoo. The longer portion is by JMS, J. Michael Straczynski (there's that darn cz!), the creator of the series.

The entry in the Babylon 5 Encyclopaedia has this to say about Spoo:
Spoo is/are (the plural of spoo is spoo) small, white, pasty, mealy critters, rather worm-like, and generally regarded as the ugliest animals in the known galaxy by just about every sentient species capable of starflight, with the possible exception of the pak'ma'ra, who would simply recommend a more rigorous program of exercise. They are also generally considered the most delicious food in all of known space, regardless of the individual's biology, almost regardless of species, except for the pak'ma'ra, who like the flavor but generally won't say so simply to be contrary.

Spoo are raised on ranches on worlds with a damp, moist, somewhat chilly climate so that their skin can acquire just the right shade of paleness. Spoo travel in herds, if moving a total of six inches in any given direction in the course of a given year can actually be considered moving. They stay in herds ostensibly for mutual protection, but the reality is that if they weren't propped up against one another, most of them would simply fall down. They do not howl, bark, moo, purr, yap, squeak or speak. Mainly, they sigh. Herds of sighing spoo can reportedly induce unparalleled bouts of depression, which is why most spoo ranchers wear earmuffs even when it's only mildly cold, damp, wet and dreary outside. If there is any life-or-death struggle for dominance within the spoo herd, it has not yet been detected by modern science.

Spoo ranching is one of the least regarded professions known. Little or no skill is required, once you've got a planet with the right climate. You bring in two hundred spoo, plop them down in the middle of your ranch, and go back to the nearby house. Soon you've got more. When it comes time to cull out the ones ready for market (the softest, mealiest, palest, most forlorn-looking spoo of the pack), little physical effort is required since they're incapable of rapid movement without falling over (see above). They do not resist, fight, or whine; they only sigh more loudly. When spoo harvest time comes, the air is full of the sound of whacking and sighing, whacking and sighing. Even an experienced spoo rancher can only harvest for brief periods of a time, due to the increased volume of sighing, which even the sound of whacking cannot altogether erase. (also see above) Some have simply gone mad.

Spoo are the only creatures of which the Interstellar Animal Rights Protection League says, simply, "Kill 'em."

Taken from a posting by JMS to CompuServe

In addition, the two main races for whom Spoo is a delicacy, the Centauri and Narn, disagree on the best way to serve their 'national' dish. The Narn insist it is served fresh to the disgust of the Centauri who insist on it being served 'matured' at least 5 days old. This argument has caused many problems on Babylon 5 on how it should be served in the five-star Fresh Air restaurant. It is now available in both forms, and the Spoo are raised by station personnel to avoid any disputes over Centauri or Narn farming techniques.
All this for a little critter no-one would look twice at if it weren't for the taste!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Post by: William E. Lurie on March 15, 2004, 11:19:08 AM: A couple of titles I forgot were early RCA OBCs --- "Hazel Flagg" (mentioned above after my initial post), "Make A Wish," "Seventeen" and "Call Me Madame" with Dinah Shore (one of Bruce's good friends) in the Merman role but the rest of the original cast and the original orchestrations. Also Columbia's "A Thurber Carnival".

****

I read this story today on another website and I wondered if any other DRs knew of this or if it is true or not. When the movie of "Gypsy" originally opened it was with Roz's vocals but shortly after the opening was when they dubbed in Lisa instead. This is the reason Roz always claimed she was not dubbed in the film --- she saw it before the change. Anyone know anything about this?
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Post by: William E. Lurie on March 15, 2004, 11:21:27 AM: Oh - I forgot to ask - BK, are you any relation to the people the Kimmel Center at NYU was named after? It is a new building that I passed for the first time yesterday. It's across the street from Washington Square and next to the Judson Church whereAl Carmines premiered his musicals in the 60s when he was a pastor there.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 11:21:48 AM: Yesterday, in response to my posting of Andrew Susllivan's comments on "Passion", Robin replied:

Quote
Never let it be said I don't give credit where it's due; but Mr. Sullivan wrote it better than I ever could...and I rarely agree with him on anything. But we're on the same page here...

Well, let's try for 2 out of 2:

In todays column, Sullivan (http://andrewsullivan.com/) writes:

THE VICTIMS OF INTOLERANCE: It goes both ways, argues Ted Gup (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54799-2004Mar12.html), in the Washington Post yesterday:

Intolerance always has two victims, the object of prejudice and its carrier. Gay men and women have endured ostracism, ridicule and violence. But those who cannot bring themselves to face the notion of homosexuality also have paid dearly. Marriage, not the abstract "institution" so often cited, but the flesh and blood and spiritual variety, has already suffered. Families have torn themselves apart over how and whether to accept a gay child, and husbands and wives, joined in sham unions coerced by society's unwillingness to accept a person's true sexual identity, have produced misery and divorce.

This is part of the reason I believe that allowing civil marriage for gays will deeply strengthen family life and the fiber of the country. It will bring families back together and prevent fake marriages and disastrous family structures from being entertained again.

der Brucer
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Post by: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 11:26:56 AM: And, in addition:

Fresh spoo (served at an optimum temperature of 62-degrees) is served in cubed sections, so that they bear as little resemblence as possible to the animal from which they have just been sliced. Spoo is usually served alongside a chablis, or a white zinfandel.

Further information on the care, feeding, eating and whacking of spoo can be found in the second edition of the Interstellar Guide to Fine Dining.

Re: your desire to make and eat spoo at home...depends on whether or not you ever want to have children later....

What does spoo taste like?
Meat Jello.
Served chilled.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 11:33:59 AM: Never heard that "Gypsy" story before, WEL. Doesn't seem to ring true. In fact in her autobiography, she writes that she saw a work version of it with a "big trained voice" and objected that it sounded too trained and unliked her and demanded that her original vocals be put back in.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 11:38:47 AM: Quote from: Charles Pogue on March 15, 2004, 11:03:08 AM
...musci...

Special fruits from which a wine called Muscitel is created.
Muscitel is the wine of choice WEO serves to his Narian guests to complement his renown Spoo quiche.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 11:39:35 AM: I won't get home for hours and hours...when the red red robin comes bob bob bobbin along....but I will make sure I log on if Benjamin is waiting for me!
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2004, 11:40:11 AM: I am glad that I heeded DR SWW's warning and checked the internet before lamenting the unavailability of a certain album. For yours, I have tried to find a CD of the Ennio Morricone soundtrack of the film Sacco and Vanzetti, featuring Joan Baez. All this time I have been searching for it in music stores, and there is a used copy available on Amazon.com at this very minute.
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 11:40:34 AM: Quote from: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 10:51:25 AM
Scarlet sends house boy to attic trunk to fetch some britches for her father.

On his return she inquires, "How many britches did you bring?"

His reply: "For Massatusetts."

der Brucer (working overtime for that one!)

Sorry, but I have to break the no-groaning law.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 11:42:56 AM: Quote from: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 11:12:56 AM
... small, white, pasty, mealy critters, rather worm-like, and generally regarded as the ugliest animals in the known galaxy by just about every sentient species capable of starflight...

Sounds like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2004, 11:43:00 AM: Quote from: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 11:26:56 AM
And, in addition:

Fresh spoo (served at an optimum temperature of 62-degrees) is served in cubed sections, so that they bear as little resemblence as possible to the animal from which they have just been sliced. Spoo is usually served alongside a chablis, or a white zinfandel.

Further information on the care, feeding, eating and whacking of spoo can be found in the second edition of the Interstellar Guide to Fine Dining.

Re: your desire to make and eat spoo at home...depends on whether or not you ever want to have children later....

What does spoo taste like?
Meat Jello.
Served chilled.

It is not a good idea to read this post, without first reading WFO's previous post on the same subject!
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 11:47:42 AM: Quote from: Kerry on March 15, 2004, 09:44:09 AM
The Wells Fargo Wagon just showed up, and although I did not get my salmon frm Seattle OR my my raisins from Fresno, I DID get KRITZER TIME and accompanying CD. Mucho thanks. I'm late for work.

Where's my other shoe?
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 12:00:25 PM: Quote from: Ben on March 15, 2004, 05:43:20 AM
We will finally have the Minneapolis Out and About Theatre Production of Boy Meets Boy (from 1979) on CD. I've mentioned this albmum before. It's got full orchestrations and more music than the CD transfer of the original production.

When I saw the original show in the Village, it was piano only - did something change, or was the MN production just classier?
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 12:01:31 PM: Three piece orchestra: piano, stool, and cover.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 12:02:04 PM: Call out the Weather Girls! Call out Paul Revere! It's raining Kritzera!
Just arrived.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 12:02:38 PM: No, no relation to the Kimmel Center or the Kimmel auditorium. All these fershluganah Kimmels showing up out of the blue to usurp MY name. When I was a young actor there were NO other Kimmels working in show business. Now it's de rigeur to be named Kimmel if you're in show business. Damn them, damn them all to hell.

I'm assuming it takes a day or two longer for packages to reach the East Coast.
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Post by: Panni on March 15, 2004, 12:03:15 PM: Album I would like on CD - When I was a kid I used to put on Jolson shows in front of the mirror. Favorite song: "Sonny Boy"... I think I've mentioned before that I was a weird child. Anyway, the record - which I still have - that I sang along with was A TRIBUTE TO AL JOLSON, Fontana and his Orchestra, vocals Jimmy Dee. Okay, it's not one of the greats. But for me it was great.
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Post by: Ben on March 15, 2004, 12:04:11 PM: They did the same show in Minneapolis but they used a full orchestra. I think the show in the Village was done in a hole in the wall space, the 13th Street Theatre (between 5th and 6th Avenues in NYC), a tiny, tiny place. When the show was done in Mpls, it was in a theatre seating around 400-500 people. The recording was done with the full orchestra and included little snippets of dialogue as well.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 12:04:34 PM: Kritzera: a new plurality. Somewhere in the apartment I have a badly typed letter from Lotte Lenya, lots of crossouts and type-overs. Under her signature, she wrote in hand "it's a good thing I'm an actress, I'd have starved to death as a typist."

Lotte, I know just what you men.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 12:05:03 PM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2004, 12:02:38 PM

All these fershluganah Kimmels showing up out of the blue to usurp MY name. When I was a young actor there were NO other Kimmels working in show business. Now it's de rigeur to be named Kimmel if you're in show business. Damn them, damn them all to hell.

Now you know how I felt when some fershluganah record producer appropriated my name!

BRUCE!!!!!
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Post by: Ben on March 15, 2004, 12:06:16 PM: Perhaps when I get home I will have a package waiting for me. If Mr. Elmore has his book, then I might also have one. If I do, I won't be able to acknowledge it until tomorrow morning. The computer restoration is going better than expected but today is still out of the question as far as getting back on-line. Lots of things have to be re-installed, etc. etc. etc. (a King and I reference).
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 12:07:53 PM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2004, 12:02:38 PM

I'm assuming it takes a day or two longer for packages to reach the East Coast.

Dearest BK, your package is postmarked March 12 and it just arrived. I have to read the other two Kritzera first, April 1, as I promised.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2004, 12:08:04 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 12:04:34 PM
Kritzera: a new plurality. Somewhere in the apartment I have a badly typed letter from Lotte Lenya, lots of crossouts and type-overs. Under her signature, she wrote in hand "it's a good thing I'm an actress, I'd have starved to death as a typist."

Lotte, I know just what you men.

Yes, elmore3003, I also know what you men.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 12:14:14 PM: Off to rehearsal. Have a sparkling chat and someone mention Allison Hayes so she will know she isn't forgotten!
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Post by: td on March 15, 2004, 12:14:16 PM: Speaking of Hungarians, and not those who have worked for Kristen Bjorn: I just found out that Adrien Brody, he of the marvelous PIANIST, is half-Hungarian. His mother was/is the photographer Sylvia Plachy, whose photos have graced The Village Voice quite often.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2004, 12:14:32 PM: Seriously, elmore3003, you have a letter written by Lotte Lenya? Was it written to you? Were you a friend of the great Miss Lenya?

BTW (By the way in internet lingo): Did she ever have any other career besides that one movie, From Russia With Love? I thought she showed a lot of potential.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 12:16:24 PM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2004, 12:02:38 PM

I'm assuming it takes a day or two longer for packages to reach the East Coast.

Not with $8.55 postage they don't.
Ours is here right now.
Thanx (name-stealer!)
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 12:20:22 PM: RE postage: I was rather shocked that they've changed the way they do priority mail now. It used to be a flat fee based on the weight of the package. Now it's based on weight and location. Ridiculous, if you ask me. They do have a "flat rate" but you have to put it in a priority envelope, and while it would fit it isn't sturdy enough.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 15, 2004, 12:33:45 PM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2004, 12:02:38 PM
No, no relation to the Kimmel Center or the Kimmel auditorium. All these fershluganah Kimmels showing up out of the blue to usurp MY name. When I was a young actor there were NO other Kimmels working in show business. Now it's de rigeur to be named Kimmel if you're in show business. Damn them, damn them all to hell.

A Kimmel Center also opened up in Philly about two years ago (it seems like they're the new Starbucks.) I assumed they were named after Jimmy Kimmel from The Man Show.

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I'm assuming it takes a day or two longer for packages to reach the East Coast.

And what happens when we assume? All three books have just arrived at my desk here in Philly and I am beside myself with glee! BK, these are so nice! And each book is inscribed and comes with a CD! Thank you very much!

I begin the journey tonight...
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 12:39:29 PM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2004, 12:20:22 PM
RE postage: I was rather shocked that they've changed the way they do priority mail now. It used to be a flat fee based on the weight of the package. Now it's based on weight and location. Ridiculous, if you ask me. They do have a "flat rate" but you have to put it in a priority envelope, and while it would fit it isn't sturdy enough.

You could have mailed it cross country for $2.26 Media Mail; of course it could take up to seven days - maybe you could offer readers who do not have to have instant gratification a shipping option and donate the difference to a worth charity (Jogging Jews Recuperation Center).
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Post by: Ben on March 15, 2004, 12:41:11 PM: The Kimmel Center (Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life) was named for the folks in the parens. They have a foundation based in NY and their giving interests are primarily for performing arts, cultural programs, education and fundraising, higher and professional education, hospitals, health care, human services, Jewish federated giving programs, and Jewish agencies and temples.

There are 10 Kimmel foundations in the U.S. (there may be more, but for our purposes, we only track these ten) most are in New York but there is one in Nebraska, one in Florida, one in Indiana, one in Delaware and one in Philadelphia, PA. None of them, as far as I know, are related to each other.

And that is your lesson on philanthropy for the day.

From your Philanthropic Buddy,

Ben
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Post by: MBarnum on March 15, 2004, 12:45:11 PM: I will do the honors JRand53,

Allison
Hayes! We love ya!
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Post by: Emily on March 15, 2004, 12:57:45 PM: Good afternoon all!

To the person who asked (I forget who and am far too lazy to actually go back to the page the question was on and find out the questionees name) KINDER EGGS ROCK!!!

They are absolutely yummy (not bad quality chocolate) and the toy inside provides hours of entertainment.

When my sister's best friend left UofT, she realized that she had a gazillion food points left in the cafeteria. The last day of classes she went to the caf and bought two CRATES of Kinder Eggs with the remainding food points that would otherwise have been wasted.

I have fond memories of sitting around her dining room table eating hundreds of eggs and assembling just as many little toys. The kinder toys are even collectible now! Whodda thunk it?

In other news, I had quite the shock today. I woke up this morning and looked at my calendar that I keep in my room and saw that I had a religion paper due today that I had completely forgotten about. My stomach felt like it was hanging above my head. But I quickly RAN to my computer and checked the class' website and found out that I had the wrong date on my calendar and that the conference the paper is due for is actually on Friday. Thank God! :D
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 01:07:06 PM: Re postage: I've had media mail packages take up to six weeks to arrive, no matter what the Post Office claims, so I'd rather pay more for priority mail.

About the great Lotte Lenya, I wrote her a fan letter in 1973, while I was working on THREEPENNY OPERA, and she sent me that lovely, messily typed response. By the time I got to New York, she was rather fragile, so I never made an effort to meet her. One of my great nights in New York was the opening night of the Brecht-Weill MAHAGONNY at the Metropolitan Opera, and it was an event, doing exactly what Brecht wanted: offending all the rich blue-haired ladies who walked out in droves. It was a great production and Teresa Stratas was truly a wonder. When the Met broadcast it on PBS (why isn't that available for sale?), Lenya was interviewed and she seemed very drugged out.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 15, 2004, 01:10:43 PM: Don't believe that apocryphal story about GYPSY for a minute, WEL. No way on earth that Warners would have risked their investment with those lousy Russell vocals.

I believe Warners did remove "Together" and the last half of "You'll Never Get Away from Me" after the premiere engagement, but the vocals we hear now in GYPSY are what was always heard.
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Post by: Panni on March 15, 2004, 01:11:14 PM: Quote from: Emily on March 15, 2004, 12:57:45 PM
But I quickly RAN to my computer and checked the class' website and found out that I had the wrong date on my calendar and that the paper is due for is actually on Friday. Thank God! :D

DR Emily - Thanking God that your religion paper isn't due is very apt.
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Post by: Panni on March 15, 2004, 01:13:35 PM: I've never done a silly Page 5 dance.
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
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Post by: Matt H. on March 15, 2004, 01:14:39 PM: I also meant to mention that the Dinah Shore CALL ME MADAM is available on CD on the Flare label imported from London. I have it.

That's why I mentioned earlier that there might be a London import of TWO'S COMPANY that I didn't know about.
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Post by: Jed on March 15, 2004, 01:24:53 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 02:10:55 AM
DR Jed... What are you doing up at 2 am? Don't you have to go to work on Monday morning?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no, and never really certain until Monday morning. Such is the unpredictable schedule of the substitute teacher. Today turned out to be no work, which is just as well since I ended up not falling asleep until 3:30 or so.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2004, 01:25:33 PM: Quote from: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 09:17:14 AM
Sorry, that's MkTschikken Szandzhouitsche.

And how do you spell Krushchev?
In German it's Chruschtschew, I believe.

What is it? Ghoti? (did I spell that correctly??)
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2004, 01:29:49 PM: I have a question that has been puzzling me. I have heard all of these awful things about the Rosalind Russell vocals for GYPSY. However, didn't she win a Tony for WONDERFUL TOWN? What, do you think, was the difference that made her singing acceptable on Broadway, but not on film? Her age? The songs themselves?
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Post by: Maya on March 15, 2004, 01:31:57 PM: Hey all! I'm typing this from work, where happily I am not doing much working (knock on wood).

I'm back from NYC, where I had a wonderful time. As you guys know, the sleepover was tres fun, and I hope Jenny and I can have another in the next few months. I liked Sweeney Todd, although I wasn't knocked out of my seat or anything. Here's my (rather informally written) review:

Mixed feelings here. It was my first time seeing a production of "Sweeney," so I really had no basis of comparison. I have the OCR, of course, and the Hearn/LuPone concert DVD, but I've never been able to get hold of the Lansbury video. From what Jenny told me, the staging and sets at NYCO were exactly the same as the original production, so it was really quite cool to see the show almost exactly as it was the night it opened.

Now, I have always been on the side of the "musicalites" in the undying "Sweeney" debate, but I do think it has operatic elements. Granted, I DID buy the cheapest possible tickets so I ended up in the fourth ring of the house, but I think something was lost in putting on "Sweeney" in such a huge theatre. The atmosphere that I think is important to a strong production of this show was non-existant for me. Maybe I just know the show too well; I wasn't chilled. However, it WAS absolutely glorious hearing that incredible score sung in a theatre for the first time and by lush, gorgeous voices (even if lyrics were sometimes garbled). As for the acting...

I was mixed. I know a lot of people hate Elaine Paige for her mannerisms and all, but I really didn't find her that annoying. She was a good Mrs. Lovett, but there was absolutely nothing new or daring in her performance...I think she played up Lovett's loopy guile pretty well, but I just wasn't blown away. And I don't know about all performances, but the night I saw it, "A Little Priest" BLEW! People laughed of course (how can you not at those brilliantly witty lyrics?), but Delavan and Paige had very little comic chemistry, and the performances there just weren't very funny. I rather liked Mark Delavan's Sweeney; I didn't find him very frightening or intense, but he sung it beautifully, and there were moments in his performance of great tenderness and poignance. For me, the best all-around performances were Judy Blazer as the Beggar Woman and Keith Jameson as Toby. Judy rocked as usual, and Jameson's "Not While I'm Around" melted my heart.

Most of my rare OCRs on LP are also on CD at this point, but I would love to see a few of the solo albums I have issued on CD (if they aren't already)--like Gordon MacRae's "Only Love" and Vivian Blaine's cabaret album (I don't remember the title of it, but I think she made it in the 70's).

Quote from: bk on March 15, 2004, 12:02:38 PM
No, no relation to the Kimmel Center or the Kimmel auditorium. All these fershluganah Kimmels showing up out of the blue to usurp MY name. When I was a young actor there were NO other Kimmels working in show business. Now it's de rigeur to be named Kimmel if you're in show business. Damn them, damn them all to hell.

Or in the writing business. There is now an on-the-rise author named Haven Kimmel.

Elmore--that's so cool that you have a letter from Lotte Lenya!! What a treasure.
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Post by: Jed on March 15, 2004, 01:32:27 PM: Quote from: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 08:59:29 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (the Great Hungarian Composers (http://www.zoltech.net/h/composers.html) website says: "He is also the author of books on pedagogic and historical subjects. - My kind of guy!)

Oh yes, he is one of music education's biggest pedagogs. The three main schools of music education (primarily for work with elementary school kids)that teachers-to-be hear time after time after time after time are Orff, Dalcroze, and Kodaly.
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Post by: Michael on March 15, 2004, 01:33:06 PM: My wonderful package was waiting for me at my front door. What a beautiful Harvey Schmidt paiting. I will listen to the cd on my way to Fort Lauderdale this evening.
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Post by: Michael on March 15, 2004, 01:36:30 PM: The majority of my LPs are in the basement of my parents home in Montreal. However I would love to have Who Is Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?, Don Juan in Hell, Stages (The Bruce Kimmel musical) and I am sure there are others that were part of my "rare" collections that were no longer rare when they were remastered on CD.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 01:40:10 PM: DR TCB, Roz was a great comedienne and I think she's wonderful in both recordings of WONDERFUL TOWN, but GYPSY calls for better vocal chops than Roz possessed, IMHO. I believe Lisa Kirk did the ghosting for her.

I thought Tyne Daly was amazing to watch in the theatre, but I find her hard to listen to on that cast recording. By the end of her career, with her wide vibrato and mannerisms, Merman was kind of camp, but she was in her prime one helluva great singer: Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jule Styne, and Gershwin wrote for her, (for her! for her!)and that's not chopped liver. End of soapbox.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 01:40:12 PM: Should we have a little contest to see who finishes Kritzer Time first?
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Post by: Matt H. on March 15, 2004, 01:40:36 PM: DR TCB: WONDERFUL TOWN was written with Rosalind Russell in mind, an untrained voice who could talk-sing and use personality rather than vocal expertise to style her songs.

GYPSY was written for a real singer/belter: Ethel Merman.

You couldn't find two dissimilar singing voices, and Roz, for all her comic and dramatic ability, was just at sea with songs that required long sustains and any kind of vocal range. She just didn't have it.
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Post by: Michael on March 15, 2004, 01:40:47 PM: The Mad Show is another one I would love to have, but I think the rights are tied up in the Marshall Baerer estate

Call Me MAdam and New Faces of 52 have both been released on Cd
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2004, 01:45:03 PM: Quote from: Jed on March 15, 2004, 01:32:27 PM
Oh yes, he is one of music education's biggest pedagogs. The three main schools of music education (primarily for work with elementary school kids)that teachers-to-be hear time after time after time after time are Orff, Dalcroze, and Kodaly.

Wasn't part of the Kodaly method the hand signals that Truffaut's character used in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS?
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Post by: Matt H. on March 15, 2004, 01:45:15 PM: I might also add that folks have won Musical Tonys who didn't sing a note: Natalia Makarova in ON YOUR TOES comes immediately to mind. Thomas Mitchell didn't sing in HAZEL FLAGG either and won the Tony.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2004, 01:46:50 PM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2004, 01:40:12 PM
Should we have a little contest to see who finishes Kritzer Time first?

I think Charles and Jane would win.
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Post by: Jed on March 15, 2004, 01:49:13 PM: Beware one and all, all and one... those nozzles (one of my favorite epithets) who harvest our e-mail addresses for their virus-spreading pleasure are seemingly at it again. I recieved an e-mail a little while ago from kritzerland@yahoo.com, which looks very much to be one of these. Naturally, I simply deleted the thing instantly, but wanted to let all y'all know that "they're baaaaaack."
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Post by: Jed on March 15, 2004, 01:52:36 PM: Quote from: TCB on March 15, 2004, 01:45:03 PM
Wasn't part of the Kodaly method the hand signals that Truffaut's character used in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS?

The hand signals that correspond with the notes of the scale are, indeed, part of the Kodaly method.
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Post by: William E. Lurie on March 15, 2004, 01:56:29 PM: NEW FACES OF 52 on CD is missing a track that was included on a 70's LP reissue.
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Post by: ArnoldMBrockman on March 15, 2004, 02:00:21 PM: TOMOVOZ-

AY!!! What do you know about GREG BONHAM?

Is he any good?
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 02:01:00 PM: There is no such e-mail address as kritzerland@yahoo.com. So, yes, beware. As a matter of fact, I just got another paypal thing to update my info. This time it arrived at the correct e-mail address. The giveaway, which I wasn't aware of until my bad thing with this two weeks ago, is that any paypal e-mail that's real will have your NAME in it. This, of course, did not, and I simply forwarded it to spoof@paypal.com. I did look at the link they provided and again, if you look in your address bar, it's not the paypal address, although they're now getting clever about that, too, so it's not so easy to recognize. The giveaway on the "update" page is that they're asking for things paypal would NEVER ask for, i.e. specifically your ATM card number, and your social security number.

As to the Kritzer Time contest, obviously people who've read advance copies can't take part. Furthermore, Jane hasn't read it yet, she would have gotten hers today, too.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 02:08:10 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on March 15, 2004, 01:40:36 PM
DR TCB: WONDERFUL TOWN was written with Rosalind Russell in mind, an untrained voice who could talk-sing and use personality rather than vocal expertise to style her songs.

From an essay by Bruce D. McClung and Paul R. Laird, collected in “The Cambridge Companion to the Musical” edited by William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird:

“One Hundred Easy Ways’ balances musical interest and clever lyrics while working around Russell’s limited singing ability.
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Post by: Jed on March 15, 2004, 02:08:54 PM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2004, 02:01:00 PM
There is no such e-mail address as kritzerland@yahoo.com.

I figured as much. These gunkies are sneaky!
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Post by: Matt H. on March 15, 2004, 02:16:21 PM: I got my WONDERFUL TOWN CD today and am looking forward to listening to it at some point over the next 24 hours.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 02:20:39 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on March 15, 2004, 12:45:11 PM

I will do the honors JRand53,

Allison
Hayes! We love ya!

Harumpf! No surprise here. Good detective work reveals that you and JRand are in a conspiracy that meets at Brian's Drive-In Thatre to discuss TG rights.

der Brucer (noticing for the first time that Allison Hayes and WEO's Joe both fell victims to "healthy eating". )
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Post by: Tomovoz on March 15, 2004, 02:26:16 PM: Quote from: ArnoldMBrockman on March 15, 2004, 02:00:21 PM
TOMOVOZ-

AY!!! What do you know about GREG BONHAM?

Is he any good?

Australian born yes. I suspect NO-ONE here knows or cares. A legend in his own mind perhaps.
I would take his bio with a grain of salt. I really know nothing about him. I am of course from Melbourne so know not much about entertainers from the centre of the universe - Sydney!
I would be more excited about Peter Brockelhurst. Check him out on the NET - Great story and great voice.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2004, 02:47:05 PM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2004, 02:01:00 PM

As to the Kritzer Time contest, obviously people who've read advance copies can't take part. Furthermore, Jane hasn't read it yet, she would have gotten hers today, too.

Well, fine, then Jane can play; but you and Charles are still ineligible.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 02:48:01 PM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2004, 02:01:00 PM
There is no such e-mail address as kritzerland@yahoo.com. So, yes, beware. As a matter of fact, I just got another paypal thing to update my info.

Yes, I received one, too, this morning, and I did exactly as you.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2004, 02:49:49 PM: Quote from: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 02:20:39 PM
Harumpf! No surprise here. Good detective work reveals that you and JRand are in a conspiracy that meets at Brian's Drive-In Thatre to discuss TG rights.

TG rights? Is that Trans-gender rights? Or Tammy Grimes rights?
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2004, 02:53:34 PM: Or Tom Green's rights? Or Theresa Graves' rights?
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Post by: Tomovoz on March 15, 2004, 02:56:24 PM: I would have assumed that it was Tom Guest's right!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 15, 2004, 03:00:25 PM: Good Afternoon!

Well, I tried to post earlier, but I accidentally closed the window, so... Ah, well... -And I've also been feeling a bit out of sorts today. A very slight stomach ache, and a very slight headache (feels like my sinuses). However, when I finally stepped out of my apartment, I found that it was/is a glorious day outside! Warm! Of course, tomorrow the rain and cold - and possible snow - is due back, so...

I'll post some highlights of my NYC excursion - I also ended up seeing Wonderful Town as well as Gypsy... reviews and comments to follow later... However, the biggest laugh of my trip...

I was walking around Times Square after the show, and saw three girls on the corner of 48th and 7th Ave pointing to various signs, looking at various buildings, and just confused and frustrated... in other words, lost. So, being the good samaritan I like to be, I went up to them and asked them what they were looking for, where were they trying to go... -drumroll please...

"Do you know where the Starbucks is?"

-trying to stifle a big laugh, and not look too incredulous, "Which one?"

"The big one."

Well... I pointed out the one they had just passed, as well as the one a block down and a block over, etc., etc., etc... Hopefully, they didn't have to check out all 18 Starbucks in the immediate Times Square area... of course, only about 3 of them are the "big ones". ;)

Well, I think I'm gonna take a nap before dinner...
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Post by: George on March 15, 2004, 03:02:33 PM: Quote from: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 10:23:59 AM
Also: The plane will be departing momentarily.

I don't know if it's a Canadian thing, but over the years I've heard too many people say:

drownded
boughten
and
(I kid you not)
Massatusetts

And what about "you guyses?" I cringe every time I hear that. :P
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 15, 2004, 03:02:43 PM: Quote from: William F. Orr on March 15, 2004, 09:02:04 AM
¹ Added just for BK's benefit, because he hates grammar. We should all attempt to do violence to grammar (But not to Gramma!) occasionally, just to please him.
Now, what has Kelsey Grammar ever done to either of you?
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 03:15:24 PM: Quote from: George on March 15, 2004, 03:02:33 PM
And what about "you guyses?" I cringe every time I hear that. :P

"Anyways" is another. Also: "in regards to."
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Post by: Jay on March 15, 2004, 03:18:36 PM: "I could care less" when the speaker really means to say "I could not care less."
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Post by: Charles Pogue on March 15, 2004, 03:33:55 PM: Well, Maya, you're Elaine Paige experience is similar to mine. Good, competent work but nothing daring, dangerous, or new.
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Post by: Noel on March 15, 2004, 03:34:42 PM: I appeared at the Kimmel Center (NYU) the Wednesday before last.

A week from Sunday, I'm teaching songwriting for Artistic New Directions. It's only $20 in case anyone's interested.
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Post by: MBarnum on March 15, 2004, 03:49:03 PM: Yes, what is TG rights? I am baffled!
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Post by: Panni on March 15, 2004, 03:51:52 PM: Has anyone seen Steve Martin's adaptation of THE UNDERPANTS at the Geffen? (I really had to resist writing "Has anyone seen Steve Martin's UNDERPANTS at the Geffen?")
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2004, 03:57:41 PM: Before I read all your lovely postings for the day I must say

MY PACKAGE ARRIVED!!! :) :) :)

The cover is beautiful.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 03:59:50 PM: Well, start reading the book if you want to win our contest. Handy-dandy sparkling prize to the first who finishes (honor system, of course, and don't RUSH through it).
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2004, 04:05:11 PM: Quote from: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 07:36:55 AM
Since JoseS is about, this is for you, dear:

(http://www.magicoflearning.com/art/hungary/photo/cukr.JPG)

This is a picture from a Cukraszda
Cukraszda means Cafe where many kinds of pastry are sold as well as ice cream, coffee, and tea. The pastries are AWESOME, and I haven't had better ice cream than in Hungary. You need to find those ecpecially great places for the ice cream, but I garantee that you will keep going back there.

der Brucer (who is preparing a pedant-attack on Panni and came across this great pic while doing research)

I will fill in my name. Is this what I can expect in Hungary? I want it so bad I'm alsmost in tears. :D It doesn't help that I'm very hungry at the moment.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 04:15:20 PM: Quote from: Panni on March 15, 2004, 03:51:52 PM

Has anyone seen Steve Martin's adaptation of THE UNDERPANTS at the Geffen? (I really had to resist writing "Has anyone seen Steve Martin's UNDERPANTS at the Geffen?")

The show got great reviews in New York, I mussed it, but wanted to see it very much. I hearit's quite a funny farce.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 04:16:31 PM: And I missed it, too. I play piano as badly as I type.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 15, 2004, 04:22:32 PM: Quote from: Jed on March 15, 2004, 01:49:13 PM
Beware one and all, all and one... those nozzles (one of my favorite epithets) who harvest our e-mail addresses for their virus-spreading pleasure are seemingly at it again. I recieved an e-mail a little while ago from kritzerland@yahoo.com, which looks very much to be one of these. Naturally, I simply deleted the thing instantly, but wanted to let all y'all know that "they're baaaaaack."

When I first registered here, I also received a few odd pieces of spam. I've since altered my e-mail address in my profile to include a "Remove" phrase, which is discernable enough to delete in the event that anyone would actually want to e-mail me but will prevent any spammers using harvesting bots from doing so.
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Post by: Danise on March 15, 2004, 04:23:10 PM: Good evening all!

Guess what I got in the mail today? Three guesses and the first two won’t count. No, not my Michael Ball tickets. Give up? Why I got a book and a CD and not just any book or CD but my very own (and I can say that because it is personalized to me and me alone) copy of.........Kritzer Time!

I have decided not to save the book and take it with me on my trip. I’m to afraid I might lose it or have something awful happen to it. As soon as I finish Dragon Heart–got bothered all through lunch again, Kritzer Time shall be next. So it is written, so shall it be done!

Joke of the day:

A lady who loves to read goes on vacation with her husband who loves to fish. Well, each day, her husband goes out on the lake and comes home about sunset while she reads to her hearts content.

One day, he comes back early saying the fish aren’t biting and he’s tired so he’s going in to take a nap. She looks at the boat and lake and it looks so nice she takes her book, rows out to the middle of the lake where she lays back and starts to read.

A Park Ranger pulls up beside her and says, “Ma’am, you can’t fish in this part of lake. It’s not allowed.” She tells him she’s NOT fishing, she’s reading. He tells her, “Well, ma’am, I’m going to have to arrest you.” She asks him, “Why?”. “Well, you have all the equipment TO fish and how do I know that minute I leave you WOULD fish?”

She tells him, “Fine, arrest me but I’m going to charge you with sexual assault .”

“What!”, he says, “I haven’t TOUCHED you!”

“No,” She replies. “But you have all the equipment And how do I know you wouldn’t?”

Da Dum Da

DR WFO: I remember that. I meant to say something about “Spoo” some time back but it never made it from my head to my typing fingers. I think the Narns were very fond of “Spoo” as well.

Opps or should I say sppo? I see where you posted the whole background on “Spoo”. I never picked up that they were creatures. I thought it was a pudding. Duh!
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2004, 04:29:33 PM: Quote from: TCB on March 15, 2004, 01:46:50 PM
I think Charles and Jane would win.

Oh no, the pressure is on now. ;D That is a big book to read under the covers, so as not to disturb Keith, with a flashlight.
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2004, 04:30:03 PM: Wait, hasn't Charles already read the book?
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 04:43:17 PM: Pogue has read the book. Everyone who ordered theirs is now in the running for a sparkling prize.
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2004, 05:15:22 PM: The cheeseburger at Stat's really was the best-EVER!
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 15, 2004, 05:30:39 PM: We received our copy of Kritzer Time, and the cd, today. Or rather, der Brucer received his copy, from the author's inscription. The other two Kritzer books belong to both of us, since the author wrote the inscription to both of us, but this is der Brucer's and der Brucer's alone.

Good disc, by the way.
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 15, 2004, 05:31:19 PM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2004, 04:43:17 PM
Pogue has read the book. Everyone who ordered theirs is now in the running for a sparkling prize.
The prize is a squirt of soda?
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Post by: td on March 15, 2004, 05:43:31 PM: Quote from: TCB on March 15, 2004, 02:49:49 PM
TG rights? Is that Trans-gender rights? Or Tammy Grimes rights?

Since when would my dear buddy, and dear reader, TCB want the rights to Tammy Grimes? :o
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Post by: td on March 15, 2004, 05:45:17 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on March 15, 2004, 02:56:24 PM
I would have assumed that it was Tom Guest's right!

Now, THAT makes sense. ;D
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 05:54:54 PM: Sorry, S. Woody, you have to be specific on the order form - I wasn't sure what the deal was, so I just made it to him. Stick your name on there, or, when you've finished it, send it back and I'll do another inscription for you.
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Post by: Panni on March 15, 2004, 06:01:25 PM: I want der Brucer's Hungarian pastries for supper.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2004, 06:02:25 PM: Am I misinformed? Isn't there a chat tonight?
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Post by: Panni on March 15, 2004, 06:06:31 PM: Variety headlines from today:

'CHRIST' STILL ALMIGHTY
(Passion once again is #1. Mel so far is going to pocket $350 million.)

JACKSON BACK ON BOOB TUBE
(Janet is going to perform on Good Morning America)
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 15, 2004, 06:07:19 PM: DR Elmore,

I'm off to chat. Catch you there.
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Post by: Robin on March 15, 2004, 06:09:17 PM: Quote from: Charles Pogue on March 15, 2004, 11:03:08 AM
Michael J. Lewis, also composed a lovely score for my film, HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, 1983, starrng Ian Richardson. He actually issued his own two-CD album of music awhile back which contained selections of his film musid from 1969-1994, conducted and produced by him.

I have that CD, and it's cherce...it's astonishing, and a damned shame Lewis doesn't get more film work. His music is very appealing, and enhances every film it's in. There's only one score track from Hound on the disc, but it's a dandy...
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Post by: Robin on March 15, 2004, 06:09:44 PM: Page SEVEN...all right!
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 06:09:46 PM: Oh, boy, senility strikes. I'm opening the chat room right now.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 06:11:11 PM: C'mon in, room's open.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 06:11:35 PM: Open sesame. Wherefore art though, Hainsies/Kimlets?
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 06:11:47 PM: So sad to be all alone in the world.
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 15, 2004, 06:25:31 PM: No ruffled feathers, BK. It's far more important that we have the book, over who the inscription is to. I'm just sorry we won't be there for the Bookfellows event this time. :'(

At least this time we got the CD. Like I say, good disc. Guy is in good voice. You owe him big-time for his contribution!
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 06:42:01 PM: You are missing out on a lively and sparkling chat.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2004, 06:51:37 PM: I can't come to chat (and I forgot about it...SORRY!). I have to go to my sister's to help her move. She built a new house! The move will (hopefully) only take a few days and as soon as she moves out of her (current) house, I'm going to move into it and will rent it from her. It's all in the family. Have a good chat!!
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Post by: MBarnum on March 15, 2004, 07:03:58 PM: Well, well, well...I certainly hit the jackpot today...in mail a lovely photo of Ms. June Kenney and Mr. John Brinkley in the film TEENAGE DOLL...on Ebay I won two photos of Allison Hayes from HONG KONG CONFIDENTIAL, two brand new (as in movies made in the year 2003) Bollywood films on DVD, a vhs of two DR. KILDARE television episodes (guest-starring Gloria Talbott and Carolyn Kearney), and...ta da...I also received two, count them two books and two CDs (Kritzerland and Kritzer Time) in the mail! That was fast as I think I only ordered them on Friday!
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 07:07:09 PM: Chat is still going on. Jenny, why don't you come to chat.
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Post by: Panni on March 15, 2004, 07:59:56 PM: Where is everybody??
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 08:04:33 PM: Hopefully everyone is reading Kritzer Time. That would be the ONLY excuse.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2004, 08:23:02 PM: It's here it's here! I received Kritzer Time and the KT CD! Hurray! But I don't want to read it quickly! It's the last one!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....thanks Mr BK for the quick service and the beautiful book! Cover looks even more delicious in person!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 15, 2004, 08:27:31 PM: Good evening!

Well, I'm still not feeling up to snuff... wherever snuff is... I thought I'd feel better after the great dinner my friend, Mark, treated me to tonight, but, alas, no...

So, I'm heading to bed...

Sorry I missed chat...

-And ordering KritzerTime is on my To Do list for tomorrow morning. When I'm feeling better... hopefully.

Goodnight.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 15, 2004, 08:30:33 PM: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY is predicting that Matt Rogers will be the first one voted out of the AMERICAN IDOL competition. Kind of funny since he garnered enough votes to come in second his week, and he's vying against people who had two shots to get voted into the finals and had to be picked by judges to get there.

But, won't how he sings tomorrow night have at least SOMETHING to do with how people vote? I know many of them will have their rootings sections around the country, but I'd think the best singers will get votes from people like me. I can promise I'm not going to vote for people just because I have some I'm rooting for. The best two singers tomorrow night are the two I'll vote for tomorrow night. If they do terrible the following week, I won't vote for them then.
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Post by: Jenny on March 15, 2004, 08:40:52 PM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2004, 07:07:09 PM
Chat is still going on. Jenny, why don't you come to chat.

Once again, I find that I can't enter the chatroom! It's a very sad world that I live in. :'(
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Post by: Robin on March 15, 2004, 09:05:28 PM: A most excellent chat tonight.

I'm watching Family Plot on TCM. Not the best Hitchcock film, but still better than 90% of any other director's films. And it does have Miss Katherine Helmond. And that ain't too shabby, eh?
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Post by: George on March 15, 2004, 10:21:56 PM: I'm back home and in the mail were the "Kritzer Time" book and CD!!! It is a wonderful cover. I found my first two Kritzer CDs and will listen to all three of them tomorrow at work.

As for the topic of the day, the recordings that I would like to have on CD (that have never been released on CD):

the 1974 Candide
Donnybrook!
Eubie!
the London Gone With the Wind
the original London The Hired Man
Let My People Come ::)
Man With a Load of Mischief
Philemon
the soundtrack to Scrooge
the Australian cast recording of Side By Side By Sondheim (with "Conversation Piece")
To Broadway with Love
Tom Foolery
Tuscaloosa's Calling…but I'm not going!
When You're In Love the Whole World Is Jewish

These are only a few of the records that SHOULD be on CD...in my humble opinion (IMHO in Internet lingo).
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2004, 10:28:35 PM: My goodness, everyone must be reading Kritzer Time. But what a day of excellent postings we've had.
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Post by: Charles Pogue on March 15, 2004, 10:58:17 PM: Alas, I was not reading KRITZER TIME. I was watching a goofy, guilty pleasure of a film called TAPE HEADS that I picked up on used DVD for $4.99. It stars Tim Robbins and John Cusak and has a deliciously surreal supporting cast of Mary Crosby, Clu Gulager, Susan Tyrrel, Jessica Walters, Connie Stevens, and Doug McClure (the last two playing Robbins parents, no less). The story is two aspiring young music video makers try to resuccitate the career of an old R&B soul act, The Swanky Modes (that's the plot among other things). The Swanky Modes are played by two soul legends Sam Moore of Sam & Dave and Junior Walker of Junior Walker and the All-Stars. And do these two old guys rock. They sing a song at the end that just brings down the house called ANY ORDINARY MAN WOULD'VE GIVEN IT UP BY NOW. Imagine my surprise when the DVD also included a CD of two different takes of this song. A strange, but fun movie...and a great R&B song.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 11:23:26 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on March 15, 2004, 03:49:03 PM
Yes, what is TG rights? I am baffled!

***WARNING - DEBAFFLEMENT FOLLOWS***

JRand, aware that he was to be E&T hoped someone would post a remembrance of Allison Hayes.

You, MBarnum, obliged.

Hmmm, I say to self, what is the JRand/MBarnum/Allison Hayes nexus?

Googling for Allison Hayes uncovers the [url+http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/allisonhayes.html]Brian's Drive-In Theater (sic)[/url] site.

Well, right there on the title screen we have: "Thanks to Jack Randall Earles for providing photos and information."

Scrolling down a bit we find a pic of Allison Hayes "with Scott Brady from the 20th Century Fox western Mohawk (thanks to Michael Barnum)".

Now the proof is in the pudding, and both are thickening.

Now I said to myself, (insert Emeril Legasse line), what else are these chaps about?

At the bottom of the site are three recommended links, one of which is:

Allison Hayes: Bigger than Life (http://members.tgforum.com/corafmnoir/AllisonHayes.html) - Visit this touching tribute to Allison Hayes, complete with photos and an extensive biography.

So off we go exploring to Bigger Than Life.

In a reference to the "Undead" the site proclaims:
"The Undead" is perhaps the best sustained showcase for the spectacular ripeness that is Allison Hayes."

"Ripeness"?, strange phraseology, what?

When we get the "Attack of the 50' Woman" we find:

"Rent this movie some night, put on a slinky negligee, pour yourself a big rum and Coke, turn down the lights and indulge in it the way you would a decadent bubble bath."

Oh, Really?

And then the zinger:

"Once you experience the images of Allison Hayes both before her enlargement (the great expanse of her bosom in a tight black cocktail dress) and after (moving in slow-motion across a limbo of night dressed only in a bed-sheet bikini) you'll understand how a minor movie can play major mischief with a young person's gender issues."

Now self says to me, what's going on here?

At the very bottom of the Webpage we are prompted with:

"If you were brought directly to this page by a hotlink from another site or search engine, click here for important information."

Well, that nailed me, alright, so click I did!

And, Voila!

Welcome!

I'm proud film-related sites have started to hotlink to some of the pages here. But I realize those hotlinks (and some search engines) might bring in people who share my enthusiasm for certain aspects of the movies, but otherwise drop them in the middle of my site without any context or preparation.

If that describes you, let me clue you in to the fact that this is the site of someone who considers themselves transgender. If that bothers you in any way, feel free to leave; this site isn't about convincing anybody about anything.

However, if you're open-minded, non-judgmental and/or curious, feel free to stay and look around. This is a strictly PG site intended to articulate and explore my passions for crossdressing and the movies and how those two intertwine.

Thanks for stopping by.

Regards,
Josie Hayes

So, DR MBarnum, your post brought me to the world of Josie Hayes!

der Brucer (gee, Crossdressers and Hungarian Pastry all in one day!)
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 11:29:36 PM: Quote from: S. Woody White on March 15, 2004, 06:25:31 PM
It's far more important that we have the book, over who the inscription is to. :'(

After nearly 18 years and this is the grammar up with which I must put!

:'( ! This line gives me :'(!

I blame this on you, BK! You and your damn "Screw Gramma" kick.

der Brucer ::hangs head at household disgrace::
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 11:48:31 PM: Quote from: George on March 15, 2004, 01:25:33 PM
What is it? Ghoti? (did I spell that correctly??)

It is 100% correct, phonetically!
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 11:52:40 PM: Quote from: George on March 15, 2004, 10:21:56 PM

Let My People Come ::)

I thought I was the only twisted sister that owned this album. (And I saw the show before it moved Uptown!)

der demented Brucer
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Post by: George on March 16, 2004, 12:06:48 AM: Quote from: DERBRUCER on March 15, 2004, 11:52:40 PM
I thought I was the only twisted sister that owned this album. (And I saw the show before it moved Uptown!)

der demented Brucer

I bought this on eBay about two years ago, but I haven't played it yet. I don't know why...it's not as if I could possibly be offended by anything that's on it! ;)